Hammer (2019)

Directed by

Christian Sparkes

Genre

drama film, thriller film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 22m

Rated

18A

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 28 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man in a small Ontario town must reconnect with his estranged son after a drug dealer takes his younger son hostage. The father and son are forced to work together to save the younger brother.

tensegrimgrittybleaksuspensefulurgentfamily-drivennoir-ish

What happens

Hammer is a 2019 Canadian crime thriller film, directed by Christian Sparkes. The film stars Will Patton as Stephen Davis, a man in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, whose estranged son Chris (Mark O'Brien) double-crosses drug dealer Adams (Ben Cotton), forcing Stephen and Chris to reunite after Adams takes Stephen's younger son Jeremy (Connor Price) hostage. The cast also includes Vickie Papavs as Stephen's wife Karen, as well as Dayle McLeod, Curtis Caravaggio, Lara Jean Chorostecki, Jason Weinberg, Stephen Lush, Deidre Gillard-Rowlings and Trish Rainone in supporting roles. The film premiered in the Canadian Vanguard program at the 2019 Whistler Film Festival, before going into commercial release on video on demand platform in 2020. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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